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Don't allow Corporate Telecom Giants to regulate the Internet

Petitioning
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

Petition By:
Karuna Gupta

The Petition

Till now, we could use the internet data that we paid for according to our requirements. But if telecom companies are allowed to do what they want then they will dictate the internet usage as to when, how and what to browse.
Corporate giants like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are trying to pressurise the government to control certain Applications like YouTube, Skype, WhatsApp and others. They want us to pay for these applications besides charging us for internet data packs. Together we can voice out our disagreement and try to stop this.
Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) is an autonomous body that has the authority to settle this issue. They are coming up with a consultation paper which will decide the fate of internet usage in the nation.
I started this petition to let TRAI know that Indian users do not want the internet to be controlled by these giants. These corporate giants gain profit from what we pay for using internet and by regulating the internet they will get a chance to increase their profit pool.
Since, TRAI does not allow differential pricing on the Internet; sign my petition to let consumers choose how they want to use the internet.
TRAI should know that we stand against these corporate giants’ rule over internet.
To
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Ravi Shankar Prasad
Department of Telecommunication Shri Rakesh Garg
Ministry of Telecom India
Department of Telecom, Shri AK Bhargava
Sir this is to bring to your notice that the Indian users do not want the corporate giants like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea to rule the internet world. We apart from paying for internet data packs do not want to pay extra for using applications like WhatsApp, Facebook, Skype, YouTube and others.
Hence, I request you to please look into the matter and come up with a law where these big corporate cannot charge us more than what we already pay them. If these corporate giants are allowed to charge the public for using the applications like the ones mentioned, only their pool of profit will increase while the public will have to suffer monetarily to use the social media.
Thus please consider my petition against the regulation of differential pricing of services on the Internet and let consumers freely use the internet the way they want to. Do not let the corporate giants dictate the public as to how, what and when to use the internet.
Yours sincerely
Sandeep Pillai